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The Sal
@the-sal.bsky.social
· Mar 15
Elon Musk holding the hand of his son X Æ A-12 as they start to climb the stairs of Air Force One, while an Army military aide in a green beret stands next to an Air Force officer, holding the Presidential Emergency Satchel - the nuclear “football” needed to initiate attacks - in his right hand.
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The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
August 28, 2025 at 5:20 AM
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
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The tone of this video is completely wild. It's filmed like a high school media class project. It looks like it too; the presentation and graphics are amateurish. And yet it's chilling, because she's a real government spokesperson dismissing reports of abuses in detention with finger quotes.
August 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The tone of this video is completely wild. It's filmed like a high school media class project. It looks like it too; the presentation and graphics are amateurish. And yet it's chilling, because she's a real government spokesperson dismissing reports of abuses in detention with finger quotes.
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Glorious writeup/scrollable experience creating generative space invader aliens, extra points from me for the mobile experience being nice af too. muffinman.io/blog/invaders/
How to draw a Space Invader · Muffin Man
This interactive post will show you how to build your own fleet of space invaders by mixing geometry with randomness and a splash of color.
muffinman.io
August 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Glorious writeup/scrollable experience creating generative space invader aliens, extra points from me for the mobile experience being nice af too. muffinman.io/blog/invaders/
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Data, striving to represent, can never keep up
Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice. Life – evolution – the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy – existence itself – is essentially change.
August 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Data, striving to represent, can never keep up
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I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
August 15, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
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We want your help. Do you work at OMB? Do you know someone who does?
Are you a current or former federal worker with information that you can share about Russell Vought?
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August 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
We want your help. Do you work at OMB? Do you know someone who does?
Are you a current or former federal worker with information that you can share about Russell Vought?
You can contact me on Signal at (202) 215-6203.
We take your privacy seriously. 9/end www.propublica.org/tips/
Are you a current or former federal worker with information that you can share about Russell Vought?
You can contact me on Signal at (202) 215-6203.
We take your privacy seriously. 9/end www.propublica.org/tips/
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I like the idea of leaving Google reviews for the current regime…. Hmmm, anyone know how to set it up?
August 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I like the idea of leaving Google reviews for the current regime…. Hmmm, anyone know how to set it up?
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Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org
July 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org
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To all of those think-tankers writing solemn papers about how to get to a ceasefire: The war will not end until Ukraine wins
"I have already said that Russians & Ukrainians are one people. In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours. We've this ancient... well, it's not a saying or a parable, but an ancient rule. "Wherever the foot of a Russian soldier treads — that is ours." #ICYMI www.dw.com/en/putin-all...
Putin: 'All of Ukraine is ours' in theory, eyes Sumy city – DW – 06/20/2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin has revived a controversial narrative, claiming that theoretically "all of Ukraine is ours." He also sparked more immediate concerns with comments about seizing Ukrain...
www.dw.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
To all of those think-tankers writing solemn papers about how to get to a ceasefire: The war will not end until Ukraine wins
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One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over. #Colbert
July 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over. #Colbert
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Sorry about your penis.
July 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Sorry about your penis.
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It is worth reminding every American today that the people who hid Anne Frank were outlaws. The people who sent her to die in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were law-abiding citizens.
It is hard to express enough how terrible today's decision is.
ICE will now send people to countries they've never been to or even heard of — Mexicans to South Sudan, Vietnamese to Libya, Venezuelans to Kosovo —and those people will have no right to challenge that decision.
ICE will now send people to countries they've never been to or even heard of — Mexicans to South Sudan, Vietnamese to Libya, Venezuelans to Kosovo —and those people will have no right to challenge that decision.
June 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It is worth reminding every American today that the people who hid Anne Frank were outlaws. The people who sent her to die in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were law-abiding citizens.
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Musk’s father, in Moscow at the invitation of the leading Russian fascist, called for reconciliation between his son and Trump.
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Errol Musk appears at Kremlin-backed forum, calls Elon-Trump feud 'a mistake'
Errol Musk, the father of billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, traveled to Moscow to participate in a forum hosted by prominent Russian propagandist Alexander Dugin, Russia’s REN TV reported on June 7.
english.nv.ua
June 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Musk’s father, in Moscow at the invitation of the leading Russian fascist, called for reconciliation between his son and Trump.
english.nv.ua/amp/musk-was...
english.nv.ua/amp/musk-was...
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"Dear Academic. Would you like to spend a year putting together a special issue for our journal? You will provide us with all your contacts and edit the issue for us for free. We will then sell access to the work. In return for your efforts, you will be allowed to read the issue, for no extra cost".
June 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
"Dear Academic. Would you like to spend a year putting together a special issue for our journal? You will provide us with all your contacts and edit the issue for us for free. We will then sell access to the work. In return for your efforts, you will be allowed to read the issue, for no extra cost".
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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A perhaps controversial point from team #NIH:
The attacks on science, and the MAHA garbage, at root arise from the fact that many Americans are very unhappy with their healthcare system.
The US healthcare and health insurance system screws many people. This is the way forward.👇
The attacks on science, and the MAHA garbage, at root arise from the fact that many Americans are very unhappy with their healthcare system.
The US healthcare and health insurance system screws many people. This is the way forward.👇
WATCH: @katmabu.bsky.social blows Jennings’ mind by saying “everyone deserves health care”
Reminder: this is how it is in every other developed nation, where the cruelty of the Republican Party has not killed universal health care on behalf of the insurance companies. #MedicareForAll
Reminder: this is how it is in every other developed nation, where the cruelty of the Republican Party has not killed universal health care on behalf of the insurance companies. #MedicareForAll
June 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
A perhaps controversial point from team #NIH:
The attacks on science, and the MAHA garbage, at root arise from the fact that many Americans are very unhappy with their healthcare system.
The US healthcare and health insurance system screws many people. This is the way forward.👇
The attacks on science, and the MAHA garbage, at root arise from the fact that many Americans are very unhappy with their healthcare system.
The US healthcare and health insurance system screws many people. This is the way forward.👇
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We are choosing ignorance and poverty
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We are choosing ignorance and poverty
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I wrote an article about the psychology by which disinformation campaigns work, with examples from anti-trans propaganda. It's not just about individual beliefs, but also the way our institutions and norms are manipulated.
Please read and share!
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Ant...?
Please read and share!
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Ant...?
Anti-trans attitudes have existed for years, but organised disinformation campaigns are increasingly driving them
Disinformation exists across all parts of the political spectrum, but it goes far beyond simple lying when it comes to the campaign against the transgender community, says a University of Melbourne ex...
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
April 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I wrote an article about the psychology by which disinformation campaigns work, with examples from anti-trans propaganda. It's not just about individual beliefs, but also the way our institutions and norms are manipulated.
Please read and share!
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Ant...?
Please read and share!
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Ant...?
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Barnard really is Columbia’s partner
April 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Barnard really is Columbia’s partner
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ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
media.tenor.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
1/n
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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As we leave you tonight, we are energized to see pushback working. We will remain vigilant.
The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.
The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.
No new autism registry, HHS says, walking back NIH director's claim
The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.
www.statnews.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
As we leave you tonight, we are energized to see pushback working. We will remain vigilant.
The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.
The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.
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Good morning ppl! I am super fired up and pissed today. Before I get to my damn rant, yesterday the VA launched a snitch line. [email protected]
Spam the fuck out of this…
Spam the fuck out of this…
April 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Good morning ppl! I am super fired up and pissed today. Before I get to my damn rant, yesterday the VA launched a snitch line. [email protected]
Spam the fuck out of this…
Spam the fuck out of this…
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FYI rabbis and cantors who are alums of Brown University are organizing, asking the university not to capitulate to Trump's weaponization of antisemitism on the path to destroying higher ed and the diversity and freedoms that should accompany it.
Glad to be one of them.
Glad to be one of them.
Rabbi and Cantor Alums of Brown Write To the University:
Do Not Cede Control to Those Who Weaponize Antisemitism
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
April 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
FYI rabbis and cantors who are alums of Brown University are organizing, asking the university not to capitulate to Trump's weaponization of antisemitism on the path to destroying higher ed and the diversity and freedoms that should accompany it.
Glad to be one of them.
Glad to be one of them.
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🚨 🚨 Thanks to the gerrymandered Ohio GOP’s passage of a bill attacking higher ed, signed by Governor DeWine, The University of Toledo is suspending admissions to the following Bach. of Arts programs:
- Africana Studies
- Asian Studies
- Data Analytics
- Disability Studies
- Middle East Studies
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- Africana Studies
- Asian Studies
- Data Analytics
- Disability Studies
- Middle East Studies
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April 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
🚨 🚨 Thanks to the gerrymandered Ohio GOP’s passage of a bill attacking higher ed, signed by Governor DeWine, The University of Toledo is suspending admissions to the following Bach. of Arts programs:
- Africana Studies
- Asian Studies
- Data Analytics
- Disability Studies
- Middle East Studies
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- Africana Studies
- Asian Studies
- Data Analytics
- Disability Studies
- Middle East Studies
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First RFK Jr says that people on the autism spectrum are useless eaters. And then he announces that the government is going to make a list of them, a “registry.”
April 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
First RFK Jr says that people on the autism spectrum are useless eaters. And then he announces that the government is going to make a list of them, a “registry.”